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Benchmarking is a valuable management tool to see how your business compares to the rest of the industry. Benchmarking results from October 2010 shows you YTD sales compared to 2009 and other key business metrics including sales per employee, retailers' most important business problem, quick ratio/cash on hand, gross margin, operational overhead, shipping costs and more. The data was tabulated and tracked from a total of 240 specialty equipment industry retailers.

There are a total of three Financial Benchmarking reports published each month, representing manufacturers, retailers and distributors, respectively.